[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In a recent history of the French in America1 the following reference is made to the encampment at Crompond: " The American army remained in camp at King's Ferry with its vanguard at the mouth of the Croton, on the Hudson River. The French army took a strong position on the hills in front of Crom-pond. The corps of Lauzun was in advance guard on the heights which skirt the Croton, and from this po-sition the two armies could in one day's march reach New York and Staten Island." Between the French and American officers there was constant intercourse. The main army was encamped in two divisions. The northernmost limit of its encampment was not farther south than the present Fair Ground. It ex-tended in a southerly direction nearly to the Little Pond, beside Mohansic Lake, then southeasterly to the foot of French Hill; eastwardly it stretched over at least a portion of the farm now owned by Colonel Nicholas E. Paine, where cannon-balls and other rel-ics of a military character have been found and as tar as Flewellen Ridge, now owned by W. H. Flewel-len. A redoubt was visible on French Hill, southeast of Mohansic Lake, until a few years ago. This local-ity was probably occupied by the cavalry Legion of 1 '• Les FiaDcais en Ametique pendant la Guerre de 1° Independence des Etats Unia, 1777-1783," par Thomas Balch, Paris, 1872. Lauzun, as such a supposition would agree with the statement of Balch, before quoted, that Lauzun was encamped on a hill skirting the Croton.